The Oasis of Literature

For all you Authors and Bookworms out there, we're creating a new club just for you! The ABOK Club is a constant club on Google+ Communities, where we will have a Book of the Month chat room, talking about the book for that month. Also, authors will be able to share pieces of their work for feedback if they would like. I hope you all join  The ABOK Club Community ! -Kacie :)

You're standing in an elevator after just finishing the final draft of your latest book, and suddenly the head of a large publishing company steps into the elevator with you. Right now, you have less than a minute to convince them that your book is good enough to be published. What do you do? You give your elevator pitch that describes your book in basically one sentence. Don't have an elevator pitch? Well, then get one! It may seem daunting to take you however many chapter book and just summarize it up in just a few short sentences, but trust me, you can do this. You just need to make sure you are able to get the main plot of your story across. In your elevator pitch, it doesn't necessarily have to be in an elevator, you have to explain what it is about your book that it is worth publishing. First, you must explain what your book is about. Second, make sure you tell who the main character is and the main conflict. And you also need a quick 500 words to go a little fur...

We've all heard those things that people and characters say all the time, and then it starts to stick to those around them. Why is it that it's always the book characters, the movie characters, and the famous people who have memorable catchphrases? Why can't average every day people like you and I have a catchphrase, something that pretty much expresses how we're feeling all the time? It's about time, that we make ourselves heard, and get out into the world so that the world will remember us for who we are, and not for something we're not. It's time for this blogs first CATCHY CATCHPHRASE CONTEST. We am challenging all of YOU to come up with a catchphrase for this blog for the month of July, and we know you all can do it. All you have to do is come up with something catchy and submit it by July 4th. We, of the Oasis of Literature, will then decide which catchphrase is THE catchiest and post it for you on Monday, the 6th for all of you to see. First place...

When an author speaks of a character and just talks as them as though they were simply a basketball, the people listening do not get a real feel for what that character is like, and they are unable to emotionally connect with the character. To make a character be real to the audience, they first have to be real to you. If you're working on a book, and you don't know much about your main character, then you won't have a very interesting book, to you and your audience. You need to have the character come to life, for YOU. For an author, the character cannot just be a collection of words on a paper, the character has to have feelings and thoughts, learn what your character likes and dislikes, what they're good at and what their flaws are. Make sure they have flaws, because a character without flaws is like a sandwich with only bread, the flaws is what makes the character interesting, likable. Have you ever heard someone who is a big fan of a book, and they go on and...